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Our Compelling Quest for Happiness

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"Happy is {she} who puts {her} trust in the Lord!"(Proverbs 16:20) I bought a new book just the other day. It's a book I have wanted to read from the moment I had decided that my "word for 2016" was going to be  Happiness. Randy Alcorn is an author and the founder and director of   Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM) , a nonprofit ministry dedicat ed to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. His ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity. He is also  a New York Times best-selling author of almost fifty books. So far, the book has been pretty basic. The preface and first chapter have described that, over the years, philosophers and religious sources have agreed that